Story+2009-05-21+East+Rutherford,+NJ

“18-year-old Jay Weinberg on the drums (crowd cheers)…”
 * 21.05.09 East Rutherford, NJ, at the end of “Radio Nowhere”**

“Good evening, everybody! (crowd cheers) we’re so glad to be home tonight in the beautiful swamps of New Jersey (crowd cheers) that’s right…and we’ve come home tonight with a purpose…the E Street Band is here tonight to fulfil its solemn vow to rock the house! (crowd cheers) but we didn’t come home just to rock the house…we came home to build a house tonight (crowd cheers) that’s right, right here in this room we’re gonna build us a house tonight…we’re gonna take the fear that’s out there and we’re gonna build a house of love (crowd cheers) we’re gonna take doubt and we’re gonna build a house of faith (crowd cheers) we’re gonna take despair and we’re gonna build a house of hope (crowd cheers) we’re gonna take the sadness that’s out there and we’re gonna build a house of joy and happiness (crowd cheers) and we’re gonna take that cooling off and we’re gonna build a house of sexual healing! (crowd cheers) that’s all gonna happen tonight…that’s right…and we’re gonna use the bad wood and we’re gonna use the good wood…and we’re gonna use the bad news that’s out there and we’re gonna use the good news that’s here tonight…and we got all the tools we need right here on this stage and in those seats out there (crowd cheers) and that’s why we’re here, we’re here because we can’t build that house by ourselves…we can’t do it by ourselves…if you wanna build a house out of music and out of spirit and out of noise…well, the E Street Band is here tonight and we’re gonna do our best to bring down the power of the music on you (crowd cheers) but, New Jersey, we need you to bring the noise (crowd cheers) now sing it like you mean it …”
 * 21.05.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Working on a Dream”**

“There I was…in the deep swamps of New Jersey (crowd cheers)…”
 * 21.05.09 East Rutherford, NJ, middle of “Growin’ Up”**

“We have Miss Patti with us tonight (crowd cheers) yeehaw!... alright, come on kid, ready, band? this is for you, baby…”
 * 21.05.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Kingdom of Days”**

“Thank you, thank you, thank you for coming out to the show tonight (crowd cheers) oh, yes, yes, yes, thank you so much, uh …we’ve played here at the Meadowlands many, many times and uh (crowd cheers) it’s a good old building and uh, early next year, uh, right next door they’re gonna be tearing down Giants Stadium (crowd boos) but before they bring the wrecking ball, the wrecking crew is coming back! (crowd cheers) that’s right…we’re gonna be over there this fall to help say goodbye to old Giants Stadium (crowd cheers) yeah…so if your pals couldn’t get in tonight, tell them to come along, tell them to get over there and we’ll have some fun in the fall saying goodbye to Giants Stadium (crowd cheers) we have some friends in, in the building tonight, we got our old friends from the Community Foodbank of New Jersey (crowd cheers) for more than, uh, for more than 25 years the Community Foodbank of New Jersey’s helped the struggling citizens here in the Garden State, last year alone they helped more than half a million local people in need, all you gotta do is pick up the newspapers, see the millions of jobs that’ve been lost and hundreds of thousands of jobs just over the past series of months, you’ll realise there’s many, many people truly struggling out there, in these times we need to support grassroots organizations like the Community Foodbank of New Jersey, they’re very often the only safety net that makes the difference between some folks going to bed with their kids fed or not, so please on your way out, help out the Community Foodbank of New Jersey, we’re gonna send this song out to them, this was written by Stephen Foster in 1855, it’s called “Hard times come again no more”…”
 * 21.05.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Hard Times”**

“Thank you (crowd cheers) yes (crowd cheers) I just want to, uh, I just wanna take a minute, for 35 years there was only one man that sat at that drum stool, tonight we’re proud to have Max’s son, Jay (crowd cheers)(?)he’s worked so hard, done such a great job for us, eighteen years old – that’s something, man, let me tell you (crowd cheers) this is for Jersey (crowd cheers)…”
 * 21.05.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Jungleland”**

“I wanna thank everybody for coming out to the show tonight, Jersey! (crowd cheers) remember the Community Foodbank… (…) The incredible Steve Van Zandt (crowd cheers) the lovely and talented, Miss Patti Scialfa (crowd cheers) from the Sessions Band, Curtis King (crowd cheers) Sister Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) the, the, the, the, the prodigy, the phenomenon, Jay Weinberg on the drums (crowd cheers) Garry W. Tallent on the bass (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano (crowd cheers) Cindy Mizelle (crowd cheers) one of the greatest guitarists in the world, Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) and the biggest man you’ve ever seen: Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) New Jersey! (crowd cheers) New Jersey! (crowd cheers) New Jersey! (crowd cheers) New Jersey! (crowd cheers) New Jersey! (crowd cheers) New Jersey! (crowd cheers) you’ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, earth-shocking, booty-shaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band”)(crowd cheers) that’s right!...”
 * 21.05.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “American Land”**

“Is this New Jersey? (crowd cheers) well, we can’t go home till we play this one – Steve!...”
 * 21.05.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Rosalita”**

//Compiled by Johanna Pirttijärvi//